my wretchedly ignorant Dovi FTW strategy : if Dovi can't shake Marquez he should 1 - play musical lead to keep the pace low 2 - on the last lap make sure Marquez has the lead through Turn 8 3 - crush Marquez with Ducati braking stability and acceleration through Turns 9-10-11 4 - accumulate enough buffer that even if Marquez gets a nose ahead through Turns 12-13-14 Dovi can out drag him to the line

Simon Crafar spoke with the Brembo man who indicated that Japan and Austria were the only two circuits to rate a 5 on Brembo's 1-5 braking stress scale. Phillip Island is a 1. Crafar observed from experience that whereas Austria has 3 stop and go corners, Japan has 5.

__________________Imagine being in something the size of a small truck and having a 12-story building come at you. That's the size of the waves [at Cape Horn]. ~ Robin Knox-Johnston

I totally don't want Marquez to crash and hurt himself but I'd be kinda excited if he does.

__________________.No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. -H. L. Mencken, 1926